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I guess it's been 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.400 a long time since we've been back here in the 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.280 magic Box. But it has been a long time, and 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.000 it would have been longer if I didn't have to 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:35.000 twist your armor. We took three weeks off because you 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.880 wanted to take three weeks off, So it wasn't my decision. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:43.000 Was the first week I wanted to do it, you 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.640 didn't want to do it. The second week I didn't 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:46.840 want to do it, you didn't want to do it, 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:48.840 So we would have been one. And then this last 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.880 week I was planning on doing it, and then you know, 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.960 life gotten the way life. Life happens while you're making plans, 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.560 right has Sometimes life happens you don't want to happen, 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.040 and it happens. A little was a little down because 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.880 you typically would send me a daily picture of your 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.520 of your local pharmacy or doctor's office that would have 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:12.560 a line miles down the road with people. Well, that's 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.120 not gonna happen anymore. Guests got big news here, breaking 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.079 news on this podcast over the This is before my 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.359 my father unfortunately got sick and passed away. But before that, 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.720 I made a big purchase, A big purchase, Guest Guard, 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:34.280 I now own a treadmill. I own a treadmill at 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.960 the Mallard mansion. I have my own treadmill, which means 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.400 I will not be going outside walking. Yeah, there's this 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.480 testing facility for the Rhona that's right near the house, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.239 and I would walk by there and the line would be. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:49.920 For the last month, the line has been all the 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.239 way around the block and down the block, And so 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.400 I would take photos every day to show you gascon 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.080 and and say, I can't I still can't believe how 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.200 long that land. The line is still there. I drive 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:07.640 drive by it, It's still still long. And now who's 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.960 paying for the government paid for the test? By the 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.680 test are free, the coronavirus test are free, We're paying 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.400 for it. That's what I'm saying. No, I was trying 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.960 to think, like, because it's a small medical clinic that's 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.400 doing the testing near where I live, they must be 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.560 making a killing right there, getting a share of that, right, 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.600 I would think it has to be. They must be 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.680 the richest people in the neighborhood. They got. But I 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.799 did buy the treadmill. I'm excited about it. I had 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:34.720 to pick it up, though, and drive it back to 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.400 the Mallard mansion. I borrowed my father in law's truck 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.120 and uh we uh, me and the kid we went 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.720 out there. We put the thing in the back of 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.960 the truck. And I'd never tied anything down on the 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.480 back of a truck ever, certainly something not this big 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.880 that could fly out and kill someone. So I picked 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.320 it up in Orange County, and you know where I live. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.120 I don't see where ither, but I live, uh, pretty 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.440 good distance away from there, east of the four or five, 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.600 yes east, way east of the four or five, closer 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:11.559 to Riverside than you. So anyway, I am making my 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:16.080 my trek back. And I decided I did not trust 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.880 that I had tied this thing down properly, even though 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.440 it seemed like it was tied down Properly's massive, huge treadmill. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.400 So I took surface streets all the way back. I 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.960 did not get on the Interstate the highway there. I 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.919 took surface streets. I drove slow. I drove in the 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.640 slow lane. People were passing me by. I was the 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.000 old guy you know that everyone hates and all that. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.000 I was that guy. But I made it back. But 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.360 then the problem was the thing wouldn't fit into the house. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.080 It's a big treadmill. So I had to get my 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.680 neighbor my guy Tony had to come over my neighbor. 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.640 He's a good handyman guy. I'm not that good with 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.960 that guy. So we had to take apart the treadmill 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.599 to get it into the house. It's that big a 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.960 thing we did would not fit through the door. Interesting. Yeah, 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:58.640 but I love it. I've been I I can go 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.080 on there and I can ten teen minutes here there, 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.080 you know, and it's pretty cool. This is a dangerous 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:09.000 proposition for you, though, because not only are you domesticated 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.640 by being married, but now you're really you're really hunkered down. 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.680 You're you're confining yourself. That's true. The only time I 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:17.920 would get out of the house was to go for 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.720 a walk, and now I don't get out of the 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.479 house now I just stay in the house all the time. Yeah. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.080 So you don't go to Costco anymore either, right? Uh? No? 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.560 I go to Costco usually once a week on the 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.120 on the weekends. But I used to go there religiously 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.080 every weekend just eat samples. I would go on a 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.440 sample run. I would hit two or three Costcos on 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.520 a Saturday morning afternoon, eating the sample. Yeah, this is 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.320 this is dangerous for you. I I I don't know 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.080 how I feel about it just yet, because it's good work. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.920 And you can obviously elevate the treadmill and increase speeds 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.719 and decrease it any given time, and you can see 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.800 your your calories being reduced. But you're you're not out 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.039 there with mother nature anymore. You're not out and about 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.480 You're not. Yeah, yeah, I mean I guess I should 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.640 a couple of days still go for a walk with 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.760 your dog, right, No, no, Bella, Bella is not a 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.000 walking dog. Bella is a lap dog. Bella does not 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.560 believe in, oh man, any physical exercise. But Bella does 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:19.279 believe in waking me up. That is uh, that is true. Yeah, 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.360 you know, randomly, and I sleep during the day. Oh yeah, 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.960 painting the ass. Yeah. Do you have a dog? Guess 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.560 you don't have a dog. I did not. I sisters do. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.520 We used to have one as as kids. But no 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:35.400 dog right now? Too much, too much taken care of. Yeah, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.560 I don't know. Well, get like a small you know, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.320 I get a big dog. You get a small dog. Yeah, 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.320 but big dogs, little dogs, they all take big ships. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.599 Now the little dogs don't take big ships. They just 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.159 ship a lot, meaning often little small ships. Yeah. But 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.080 then they shed, you're gonna buy them food and wash 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.719 them and walk them. Bella doesn't shed that much. The 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.600 ship suits don't shed that much. Poodles don't shed at all, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.720 that I believe. I don't like the that's not a 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.480 very masculine dog. I can't be rocking a ship su 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.599 Who the funk cares I do? I can't A middle 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.880 aged man, I can't. I can't rock a poodle either, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.520 you know, you know, twenty years old word about trying 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.440 to get chicks, like like a border collie or a 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.960 pitbull or rockweiler, like those are dogs. Maybe a wolf? 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.400 How about that? Let me tell you something that I 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.240 don't know if dog parks are open, but that used 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:25.840 to be a place my buddies used to go with 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.080 the dog to pick up the ladies because every you know, 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.080 they love asking questions about the dogs. That's great instant 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.880 chick magnet. Right, Yeah, that's that's also a sign your 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.480 relationships getting serious. Guest, when you're dating someone for a 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.640 while and they're like, let's get a dog together, that's 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.960 a son. Would you rather do that though, or have 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:48.560 them move in with you? How old? Am I? What's 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.160 the situation? What's my living situation. I'm gonna say, I'm 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:57.000 gonna say this is pre pre your wife. Yeah, it was. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.640 It was a tough adjustment. I had my routine. I 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.320 was about actually for the last you were in the 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.600 heart of l A. Yeah, I was living in l 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.320 I living my best life, going to games, eating junk food, 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:12.240 living wonderfully. And uh, yeah, it was difficult. I think, well, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:13.960 I'm used to it now. I think if I went back, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.280 I would have a hard time, like to the bachelor lifestyle, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.840 so I would. I'm so used to my routine now. Yeah, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.240 that's a that's a real challenge. Dog is one thing, 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.800 especially if you get attached. But man, if you move 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.000 in with her, she moves in with you. That's that's 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.520 a tough break whenever the relationship does come to its demise. Yeah, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.959 and then the dog ends up in the kennel right there, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:36.800 the dogs like I will send the dog to the 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.720 kennel and get rid of it. That kind of thing. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.679 I think you're more inclined to give it to the female, 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.120 or at least she'll ask for it because she knows 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:48.960 that will break you. Yeah, there's a lot of vitriol 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.520 that takes place right the feuding and all that. All right, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.319 So we have on this edition of the Parties we 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.160 have pop quiz, guestcut Big Pop. Are you excited about? 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:00.480 Is there anything else you would like to get you 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.920 before pop quiz? Is there anything else on your agenda here? 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.760 Anything you've been saving? You've been we've been away for 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:07.880 three weeks. Did you do anything over the three weeks? 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.320 I went to Sequoia, uh, and I had a wonderful 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.040 time and it was just great. And I love going 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:15.840 to the I was in the snow for a few 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.280 days and had a really good time. And I love 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.760 the Giant Force my one of my favorite places to visit. 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:22.760 So I had a good time. Did you go anywhere? 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.600 Did you do anything? I? Um? I went to the 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.160 firing range a couple of times, kept my kept my 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:33.760 trigger finger happy. Um. How many? How much do bullets cost? 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.280 I have no idea how you want? You go to 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.280 the firing range? You don't? How's it? How's it worked? 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.520 Did you have to bring your own bullets? Or yeah? 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:41.960 The trick is it's just like when you go to 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.080 Vegas and you go to the casino. Don't do it 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.600 when you don't have any money, because if you go 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.280 to an a t M. You know they're charging you 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.600 four or five dollars um a transaction. If you if 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.280 you go to a store first and then buy them 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.040 and then go to the range, you're in much better shape. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.559 So like a box. So you go to the rage 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.520 with your gun obviously, and how does it work you 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.720 you have the bullets with you or you buy them there. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.520 You have to buy them there? No, Yeah, if you 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.440 buy them there, they're a lot more expensive than if 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.559 you buy and buy them at a store. So I 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:13.320 always buy them at a store, bring them with you obviously, goggles, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.480 some ear gear, and then um, and then your your weapon. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.120 They'll usually provide you with a couple of targets for 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.800 a charge, and then if you want to buy some 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.840 specialized targets, that's usually a dollar or two dollars depending 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.920 on that. So certain ranges though, were strict that they 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.360 only a light is sitting there and fire for thirty minutes. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.000 Others will be in there for an hour, and then 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.560 they obviously keep you know, separation six ft apart, so 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:41.120 every other lane has occupied just like a bowling lane. Um, 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.480 but yeah, bowling alleys are closed, are they? Yeah? I 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.240 didn't know that shooting the shooting ranges are open. They 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.400 are oh yeah, indoor, some outdoor. I haven't been to 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.800 an outdoor in a while. So, but a box of bullets, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.840 how much does that cost? So for a hundred rounds, 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.200 it was about eighty six dollars when I when I 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:04.480 bought them back in July August. It is it's supply 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.559 to man, but I went a couple of days ago 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.800 and a box of a hundred or a box of 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:15.160 a hundred now is like six Okay, So it's gone down. Yeah, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.240 it certainly has so by those on Amazon or no, 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.400 just local stores. Yeah. Because the other thing too, it's 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.040 a kicker, is if you're in the state of California, 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.720 you can't buy magazines that allow you to have more 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.320 than ten bullets in a magazine. We have restrictions here 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.439 in the state. Okay, so you're you're limited to two 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.960 ten bullets per magazine. So you have to go to 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.880 like Oklahoma or Alabama or somewhere in Nevada wherever it 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.400 may be. Yeah, but if you do that, that's the 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.920 thing you have to claim residency there. So it's a 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:45.440 whole process. And then on top of that, when you 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.440 buy bullets. You actually got to go through a background 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.880 check to do a background check that usually takes like 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.400 fifteen minutes or so when you're there, and then they 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.160 allow you to buy the bullets after that. But it's 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.880 a dollar every time you do a background check too, 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.760 So it's a whole process. Anyone says that's a lot 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.320 of red tapement. Yeah, Anyone says buying a gun is 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.200 easy doesn't know what the fun they're talking about. Well, 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:05.920 if you do it legally, it's easy. If you do 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.320 it on the street, it's not that. Well, know what 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.280 I'm saying, Like, you know, you know guy, you know 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.040 the black market for guns, You can find a gun. Yeah, 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.320 but when I purchased my first weapon, it took me 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.199 nearly forty five days. Yeah, but I'm saying you did 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.480 it legally, you went through a gun shot. I'm saying, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:25.080 like most of them, I guess I'm I'm going down 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.679 that road. But I would assume a lot of the 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.440 guns that are used to do really nasty things are 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.880 not bought legally, you know what I mean. They're bought 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.440 via back channels, and they're people avoiding big brother who 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.600 knows somebody who knows somebody to get around those obstacles. Yeah, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.560 that's true. I did. I did call a couple of 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.920 college basketball games, and I had to do it with 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.920 a mask on. About that, that's very al Michael's of you. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:57.560 Oh my gosh. Remember when A Michaels Yes in San Francisco, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.720 in Santa Clara. Yeah, geniuses in Santa clar County thought 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.960 al Michael sitting by himself in a booth thousands of 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.680 feet away from anyone, that he needed to have a 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.640 mask hunt. Yeah, we were. We were actually not permitted 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:12.600 to be courtside. We had to go all the way 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.760 up the stands and me and the colored commentary were 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.560 probably a good twenty five ft apart on these elevated tables, 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.320 and we had to do stand ups, which are based 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.839 like the on camera shots. We had to do the 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:27.960 do those separated, and we had to do those with 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.040 our mask on, and then call the action with their 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:34.000 mask on too, And the arena is empty, there's no 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.320 nobody there. Yeah. How weird was it to call the game? 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.840 I would be self conscious because I think the players 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.720 are hearing what I'm saying. So I did that last year. Yeah, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.320 I did that last year during the Big West Conference tournament. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.240 We were courtside. I was actually one of the final 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.400 games to call um that night before they shut it 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.640 everything down, and I was loud as fuck and I 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.520 was doing I was doing a radio call, and during 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.440 the radio call, the people that were on TV for ESPN, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.280 they came over to me and they're like, hey, can 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.400 you tone it down? Your calls bleeding into our on 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:12.600 air call. That's outstanding. Yeah, and it's see, I'm glad 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.000 you don't care, because I remember when I was doing 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.840 those stringing reports and be covering baseball and stuff in 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.120 the press box and the way it works, the first 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.040 two rows were the writers, and then the back row 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.400 were the people that dunce capped the radio guys. Radio row, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.880 it was in the back. So you call into a 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.480 radio station back when you used to do these things 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.840 at the top bottom the hour, and you'd be screaming 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.840 for like thirty forty seconds, you know, giving details of 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:37.000 the score, and it would always upset the writers. In fact, 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:38.760 some of the cities on the East Coast when I 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.400 was traveling with the Dodgers, I know in New York 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.560 and several other places, they segregated the press box they had. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.480 The writers had their own press box, and the radio 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.880 TV guys had a separate press box to keep the 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.800 radio guys because the writers were such douchebags, they could 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.800 not handle thirty second updates. It was too distracting for them. 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.040 For these pullet surprise winning sto worries about a Phillies 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.040 game or you know, an Orioles game. It was like, 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:09.840 really gave Night, which you know, beyond the game story. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.280 I know they don't even do many game stories these days, 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.000 but who the hell was reading that? You know, you 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.560 know what I'm saying. You look at the box score. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.040 You want to see the other stuff that was going on. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.240 You weren't reading the game story. Forget about that, my goodness. Yeah, 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.360 speaking of which I was, I was navigating around the 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:31.280 social media universe and doing some homework. I thought, I 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.120 thought Benny versus a Penny in the NFL regular season 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.840 was good, and what we're what we're closing thoughts on that? 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:38.880 I thought it was pretty good. I enjoyed doing it. 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:43.560 I figured out kind of the way that the internet 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.400 needed to work. After about twelve thirteen weeks, I finally 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.800 figured out what we needed to do there to scheme 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.760 up the internet, and yeah, it was. We had a 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.560 good group of loyal brigadier generals in the malle Militia 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.720 that that left the radio show in the podcast and 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.520 you really are like the one percent to the one 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.760 percent if you're hanging out with us on a Friday 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.480 night on YouTube and the Yeah, the audience grew. We 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.600 had more people watching as the season went on, and 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.080 a lot of people didn't even watch it live. And 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.960 the chat was a big selling point where we read 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:17.680 the comments even though you were annoyed. I kept reading 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.480 so many comments, but that was a pathway to get 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.640 more people involved, and then people would would would would 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.680 listen to our sacred picks are my sacred picks throughout 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.080 the weekend, So it was it was fun. I know, 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.000 we're talking about doing some other things and all that. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.240 I I because of my situation with my dad, um 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.480 my weekends pretty much for the rest of time. Apparently 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.360 they're gonna be to take care of his affairs and 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.560 to clean out the Mallard family house and all that. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.480 So I only have a couple of days, so I 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.720 don't know that we'll be able to do that anytime soon. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.280 But when we do, well, you know, there's other sports 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.400 that we can do Benny versus bennybody. I would like 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.600 to do it at least for the super Bowl. If 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.600 we can't. You know, we can't do it up until then. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.760 It was only a couple of weeks of a football 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.920 before the super Bowl. But I'd like to do that. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.080 And uh, it was a lot of fun. You you, 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.520 you and my wife convinced me to get a green screen, 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.760 which is a big step in my life. And uh, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.960 I have that. I own a green screen, so I 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.320 feel cool and all that. And you had the attire 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.159 and then you got ridiculed for some unknown reason. I'm 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.000 wearing an Iowa Hawkeye hat. Um. Yeah, there was there's 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.080 some good headway that we made and uh, yeah it was. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.080 It was a lot of fun. I think that the 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.840 Super Bowl would be a good one. And uh, always 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.439 random when you see dudes on a chat criticizing the 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.640 host for what they're wearing or what they look like. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:43.520 Odd to me, right, I just well, it's human human nature, 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.640 right people are people are like to bust each other's 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.240 balls anyway, That's what we do in the Mallem Militia. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:52.080 We bust each other's balls. But you know the you 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.119 look at the tenants of human nature, and vanity is 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.960 one of right. Like laziness, you try to find the 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.840 easy road. Greed, you want to get the most you 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.560 can get. That's why you supersize your fast food meal ambition, 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.960 although not everyone seems to have that this day. Uh, 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.800 self interest, self interest, ignorance, and vanity. Those are the 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:15.239 six characteristics of human nature. Advantage of parts. So if 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.280 you can if you can attack someone else's vanity right 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.040 their appearance or you know they don't have money, or 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.600 they don't you know, they're not intelligent, that's a big attack. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.800 That's how that's how social media exists, is for people 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.760 to attack other people's vanitages carried over to the politics. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.280 I think that it will be huge when you're all 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.040 done with with what you're doing your dad's I think 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.360 you're gonna have to attend a couple of trade shows. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:46.120 Something just tells me you're gonna have some really good stuff. Storage. Yeah, 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.400 we're debating, like how much of that. I have so 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.280 much that I could sell, but it takes such a 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.199 long time to do it, so and you gotta have 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.040 storage for it. I mean, there's a lot of a 0:18:58.119 --> 0:18:59.840 lot of moving parts like a pinball machine, right, a 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.000 lot moving fast to it to get it, to get 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.320 it done. So we'll find out how motivated I am. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.080 But I did find my my parents. My mom had 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:13.640 passed away, and my dad just kind of didn't touch anything. 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:15.280 You know. He's like he wanted the house the same 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:16.880 way you want to live in the house till he died. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.280 And I'm glad he was able to do that. Um, 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.119 but he didn't clean much and so it was really 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.359 it's like a Mallard museum my my house going through 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.280 it and uh, you know, my mom was very sentimental 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.480 and kept everything and uh, and so it's it's been 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.600 been interesting seeing stuff. I mean, the photos are obviously 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.240 the most important. So a lot of that stuff covered 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.720 dust or whatever in the clause, buried in the closet 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.239 and all that. So I would like to thank your 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.439 old man, very nice a note from your father, the 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:52.320 patriarch of the Gascon family, and very kind of of 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.639 him to send that. The David Gascon Felly, not the 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:00.920 not the not the George Gascon. We're not Gilant officers 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:02.880 getting shot at in the head and then allowing them 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:04.879 to watch God free. So we're a little bit different there. 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.159 How how not good for you? But how the just 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.480 the comedy value that your father a respected member of 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.439 law enforcement, the l A p D. I ran the 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.680 l A p D for a few years, and here's 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.760 this guy, hold my beer get the same name was 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.280